Posts by Melody Smith
Indefinite Postponement?
The American Medical Association has stated their preference of the ICD-10 implementation date being delayed to Oct. 1, 2015. This was in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services decision to postpone the original ICD-10 coding classification transition from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. In fact, they also stated that if stakeholders cannot reach consensus on this matter during this two-year delay period, then the move to ICD-10 should be postponed indefinitely.
Read MoreMore Findability Made Possible
Using EBSCO Discovery Service from EBSCO Publishing, the Freedonia Group’s Focus Reports Collection providing, US, World and International, country specific market research will now be searchable.
Read MoreAnother Vote for the Delay
The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) has chimed in on the debate over the delay of the ICD-10 implementation, and they believe the one-year delay will be beneficial. The federation also believes that all segments of the healthcare industry should transition to ICD-10 at the same time.
Read MoreNISO Release SERU
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the new edition of the recommended practice SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (NISO RP-7-2012).
Read MorePublished Articles by Chinese Authors Increasing
China is fast becoming a global leader in scientific publishing and scientific research. Papers with authors from China now represent 6.6 % of the 3,425 papers published in Nature journals in 2011. This is up from 5.3 percent in 2010.
Read MoreThe Nostalgia of Paper
We have discussed the ebook conundrum for book lovers and fans of the actual printed word and paper. The temptation is stronger every day for these diminishing holdouts to cross over to the “electronic” side.
Read MoreThe Delay Can Be Costly
The ICD-10 debate rages on. Will it remain a one-year delay or will the AMA win with the two-year delay argument? One healthcare veteran believes this controversy places perspective on the situation, as well as some validity.
Read MoreOntology Intelligent 360 Released
Ontology Systems has released Ontology Intelligent 360, a suite of apps that deliver enterprise views, dashboards and fully featured operational solutions using Ontology 3 semantic search technology.
Read MoreAMA Wants to Wait Two Years, At a Minimum
The American Medical Association believes that a minimum of a two-year delay is necessary to conduct a cost-benefit analysis on physician practices and evaluate whether an alternative code set is more appropriate.
Read MoreFinding You
It is a constant challenge for any website to maintain their position in search engines. We know that first hand. Google’s newest algorithm update is named the Penguin update and many SEO companies are starting to learn what the search engine now expects.
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